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Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries for U.S. Government Web Sites

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Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries for U.S. Government Web Sites: “This new Spanish Style Guide is a resource for government employees, translators, and communications professionals who work with the government to improve the way we communicate with the public in Spanish. The guide contains information on grammar and style issues as well as glossaries… Continue Reading

Statehealthfacts.org Updates Data on Medicare Prescription Drug Plans

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11/15/2006: Updated AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Policies Related to Medicare Part D, as of May 2006 11/15/2006: Updated Medicare Drug Benefit Low-Income Subsidy Applications, as of 10/27/06 11/15/2006: New Number of Companies Offering Medicare Advantage Drug Plans (MA-PDs), 2007 11/15/2006: Updated – Number of Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs), 2007 – “Data have also… Continue Reading

Lautenberg Introduces Legislation to Require Medical Accuracy in Government Programs

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Follow-up to GAO Review HHS Abstinence-Until-Marriage Education Programs, Sen. Frank Lautenberg “introduced legislation [on November 16, 2006, titled the Guarantee of Medical Accuracy in Sex Education Act] to require that federally-funded sex education/abstinence programs teach medically accurate and factual information.” [press release] Continue Reading

Failure to Identify Company Owners Impedes Law Enforcement

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Related to my posting yesterday, GAO Report – Company Formations: Minimal Ownership Information Is Collected and Available, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on November 14, 2006: Failure to Identify Company Owners Impedes Law Enforcement. The hearing “…examine[d] the issue of states routinely incorporating hundreds of thousands… Continue Reading

Symantec Phish Report Network Opens to Consumers Worldwide

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Press release: “Symantec Corp…announced the opening of the Symantec Phish Report Network to consumers worldwide. As one of the world’s leading antifraud communities, the Symantec Phish Report Network, launched in May 2006, allows member companies to contribute and receive fraudulent Web site addresses that they can use in their antiphishing solutions to help protect users… Continue Reading

Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2005

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Bureau of Justice Statistics: “This annual report provides the number of applications checked by State points of contact, estimates of the number of applications checked by local agencies, the number of applications rejected, the reasons for rejection, and estimates of applications and rejections conducted by each type of approval system. It also provides information about… Continue Reading

GAO Review HHS Abstinence-Until-Marriage Education Programs

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Abstinence Education: Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs, GAO-07-87, and Highlights, October 3, 2006. “Efforts by HHS and states to assess the scientific accuracy of materials used in abstinence-until-marriage education programs have been limited. This is because HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF)–which awards grants to two programs that… Continue Reading